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Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion To The Taliban
This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval period to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, and Urdu, its depth of coverage is unrivalled in providing a developmental picture of Afghani…
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- 9780520967373
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Transgender and the literary imagination changing gender in twentieth-century…
Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
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- edition 19
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- 9781474414678
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- 257. p
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- 809.9335267. TRA r
Shakespeare and the fall of the roman republic selfhood, stoicism and civil war
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare’s place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of me…
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- 21
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- 9781474427487
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- xi. :321 p. :ill.
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- 822.33. SHA p
Beyond the silk roads : trade, mobility and geopolitics across Eurasia
Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus M…
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- 9781108974387
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- xiii, 289.; ill.
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- 382.095 MAR b
Rituals, runaways, and the Haitian Revolution : collective action in the Afri…
The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to su…
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- Edisi 2
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- 9781009256148
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- xiii, 355p.: ill.
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- 305.89607294 EDD r
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 : Latin text with introduction, commentary, gl…
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge t…
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- 9781783740840
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- xii, 221p. ; ill.
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- 873.01 GIL o
Henry James's Europe : heritage and transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross…
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- 9781906924386
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- xxiv, 271p. ; ill.
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- 813.4 TRE h
Who saved the parthenon? : a new history of the acropolis before, during and …
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this endu…
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- 9781783744633
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- xviii, 876p. ; ill.
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- 938.5 WIL w
On the literature and thought of the German Classical Era : collected essays
Das vorliegende Buch ist das wissenschaftliche Vermächtnis von Hugh Barr Nisbet (1940–2021), Emeritus des Sidney Sussex College und Nestor der britischen Aufklärungsfor-schung. Nisbet schloss die Arbeit an diesem Band im Dezember 2020 ab, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod am 6. Februar 2021. Seine Absicht war es, so der Verfasser und zugleich Herausgeber in seinem konzisen Vorwort, einige der ze…
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- 9781783747719
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- viii, 336 p. : ill.
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- 830.9006 NIS o
Religious radicalism : demarcations and challenges
"Religious Radicalism scrutinizes the religious motives and mechanisms of radicalism. The contributors observe a growing lack of understanding of religion in secular policy-bodies, as well as in the academic world in Europea and beyond. They put forward an approach 'from within' and aim to provide policy-makers with workable tools and a user-friendly method for constructively tackling religio…
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- 9789461171313
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- ii, 210p.
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- 323 REL t
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